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The Town’s Department of Community Resources/TDY Community Center provides essential social services on a Town-wide basis. Its mission is to address “problems caused by poverty, racism, or cultural deprivation.”

However, only the Town’s unincorporated areas (and not the Town’s villages) are taxed to support TDY’s budget, thereby denying TDY access to broader and more stable Town-wide funding.

Here, Paul Feiner defends this longstanding Town policy by citing a statistic without providing a source. In any case, we find it troubling that Mr. Feiner is suggesting that:

1) only users of social services should pay for social services, which is obviously not how such programs function in the United States; and

2) village residents, who also live in Greenburgh and vote for Town Supervisor, should somehow be relieved from paying their fair share for TDY despite the fact that they have full access and do use the services, as Feiner readily admits.

Accusing the villages of wishing to fund social services EXCEPT those that deal with the problems caused by "poverty, racism, and cultural deprivation."

OR

Providing dubious information about the villages' views on social services that address "poverty, racism, and cultural deprivation" to justifya policy of keeping taxes lower in areas where he gets the most votes.

On Monday, the Town will make the next $600,000 Fortress Bible bond payment (with a $3M balance outstanding). Greenburgh's unincorporated taxpayers alone must service this expensive liability, which resulted from the Town's violation of a church's constitutional rights.

If you live in Edgemont and have household members who are not registered to vote (including children under age 18 and people who are non-US citizens), please email us at edgemont2019@gmail.com with the names and addresses of all those household members.

Our efforts to secure Edgemont residents the opportunity to vote on our preferred form of local governance have continued throughout the summer. Read below to learn more about the status of the Article 78 and other developments.

Anti-Incorporation and Town led "Edgemont Community Forum" held an event on Wednesday where they brought in a former non-profit, independent governmental consultant, CGR, previously hired by Greenburgh. CGR provided a preliminary view based on the data available on the potential property tax bill impact to the residents of Edgemont.